Friday Film Showcased, Episode 3: Jack Nicholson – The Fortune (1975) | Five Easy Pieces (1970), About Schmidt (2002) & more

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends), they look back on themes gone by.

In the tertian episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor discuss the life and films of Jack Nicholson, and Showcase one film in particular.

Spoiler: It’s The Fortune (1975). But they also talk a lot about Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, About Schmidt, The Shooting (and the Roger Corman days), Head (and the Monkees), Something’s Gotta Give, Tommy and Broadcast News. How do you know? Because you listened to the podcast.

Jack (Nicholson) July: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/jack-nicholson-july/

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Mentioned in the podcast

Darren Aronofsky doesn’t know who Mario Bava is: https://youtu.be/B6LeXVCiOOM?si=emomg909-7HfoK16

Matt Damon on Jack Nicholson changing the script in The Departed: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/teK_CFdc7gM

Klingons do not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bxIs-Z15jk

Jack Nicholson interview with the BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/jack-nicholson-interview-1974-antonioni-passenger-easy-rider

Jack Nicholson: The Ultimate Viewing Guide in Empire magazine: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-classic-jack-nicholson/

Monte Hellman interview in 2011 at The Flashback Files: https://www.flashbackfiles.com/monte-hellman-interview

Vincent Canby’s review of The Fortune in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/21/archives/nicholss-fortune-is-oldtime-farce.html

Ben Mankiewicz introducing The Fortune on TCM:¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM3vtaKemG4

Ciara’s film diary on Head for In The Mood magazine: https://www.inthemoodmagazine.com/issue-2/film-diaries

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1. Ben’s comments are partly incorporated in Conor’s trailer for The Fortune, included in the episode. There is no trailer for this movie on the entire internet. Mad. Anyway, thanks, Ben!